[Charles]

I think that today has been the worst day of my life. I can even rival it with the day I learned what was wrong with my back and the day that I had three teeth knocked out playing raquet ball. Actually, today's problems lead back to a week ago also. I have to get this off my chest, so here goes.

I am on medication for my back surgery. Yesterday, at noon, I took the medicine for the last time that day (I am supposed to take it 3 times a day). I didn't get to sleep until 1:00 and I woke up at 4:00 am. I had to drive home to pick up a new vehicle. I was supposed to get back at around 10:00 to watch a friend's brother play soccer, and to meet with a friend to talk, but on the way home, my vehicle broke down. I was stranded at a small convenience store for 3 hours until my father could round up someone to tow the car home, and pick me up. I had not had my medicine since the day before, and my back was starting to hurt. I was also going to finish typing a paper and cash two checks when I got back to Auburn. I finally got home and picked up my new vehicle. When I tried to start it, it didn't start. The battery was dead. We finally replaced the battery and I started home. I wanted to get home as quickly as possible, but I couldn't go fast because there were many police waiting to give tickets to anyone speeding. It took me another 3 hours to get home. I finally got home and fell asleep. I woke up and realized that I wasted the entire day and now I am going to have to type that paper tomorrow and I really don't have the time to do that.

Sorry to post this in a fantasy forum, but I have had a bad day and had to get it off my chest. Delete it if you want, but I needed to post this. I have typed it, so that is good enough for me.

[Cadfael]

Charles, don't apologise, we are your mates and you can always vent you frustrations in this direction...

... but the fact is, you have had surgery on your back and you should NOT be running around picking cars up... you should be resting... i.e. sat on your gluteels, reading, drinking iced teas... chillin'.

I did post on one of the topics... not to push it... and you have... so the next is not opinion... IT IS AN ORDER...Sit down... let your back rest... only get up when you are given permission from a qualified quack... and read, read... oh and read...

Okay... I know it may feel like you are handling things... if the above had happened 2 years ago, you would have swung it... with no problem... A back dissorder, is a funny kind of thing to get over, if you start pushing it, you are gonna create problems later on in life. On the other hand, if you take it easy, people are gonna say you are lazy, but you will save yourself a barrel of pain in later years. Charles... I am 43 years old, I have a back problem, and I really should not have a problem, but I pushed it, now I pay the price.

[This message has been edited by dennizm (edited April 08, 2001).]

[Charles]

I have to do stuff so that my back doesn't get worse. The surgery was laser surgery, so it isn't like I have a long recovery time anyway. I should have taken the advice of friends and dropped this semester though. I have to walk every day for at least 30 minutes, which, on a side note, is actually good for me. I also had to do all this stuff. The vehicle I had before was a P.O.S. I don't think it would have made it another 2 weeks. Also, the amount of work I have due this month is phenomenal. I don't think that I have ever written or studied as much as I have been doing so far for just this month. I hate how all teachers make everything due at the end of the semester.

I am so high right now it is unbelievable. I took my medicine and it is really affecting me. I got up to walk over to the kitchen to fix myself a glass of tea and nearly fell over. Lorotab and Muscle Relaxers work wonders. My back no longer hurts, or at least I don't care about them... Oh well, I guess it is back to having a supressed apetite due to this medicine... When I take it regularly, I eat about 1 meal a day. I don't feel like eating when on this stuff. When on it, I just look at food and feel sick. I don't know why, but I am sure that it will help me lose a few pounds. It is still surely not good for me.

I feel better now that I have vented that stuff. It is amazing what a little post will do for venting frustrations. I think that should be a requirement for everyone at least when they have had a bad day. This is the most random post in the world I think. I wonder if there is anything else I can put in it. Xenogears is a great RPG. I loved that game, beat it twice, took over 70 hours each time. There, something else that is random.

[Metosblat]

Since Charles has open the door to the personal venting of emotion I've decided to do the same and share a really, really crappy day I had last wednesday. Perhaps this will make you feel better Charles.
Don't read if you don't want to.

I had recently started to play soccer again and wednesday was supposed to be my first training session back from a 2 year absence. I was very nervous, because i'm usually a nervous person, so the fact that I knew no-one on the team increase my anxiety ten-fold. So my mum drops(haven't got my licence yet) me off at the soccer grounds aroung 7pm and proceeds to drive off. It takes me about 3 seconds to realize i've left my boots in the car. I take off after her sprinting and shouting and waving my arms behind her. She doesn't see me and soon is out of distance.
I'm standing in the middle of the road cursing my stupidity and i'm too afraid to go back the the soccer grounds incase someone saw me running and waving my arms like an idiot. So I start to walk home (30km away). I can't ring my mum to pick me up because she's going somewhere and picking me up afterwards.
I'm about 15km into my walk minding my own business just walking along the main road when I pass this guy who's just sitting in his car. I walk past him and he starts reversing after me. Now I live in a small city where alot of people still leave their doors unlocked at night, so at first I think this guy is just trying to scare me. After this guy has been reversing after me for about 50m I come to a bus stop where I sit down and wait to see what the guy does. He sits there and leaves his engine running. 5 minutes later he's still there so I get up and cross to the other side of the road. HE GETS OUT OF HIS CAR AND STARTS TO FOLLOW ME!
This is when I finally decided to run.
Finally I look behind me and he isn't there anymore. So I continue my walk. At this point I am completely amazed by how calm I am, because I have a very bad temper and usually i'd be extremely angry by now.
So i'm still in a sort of mellow mood when a group of cars drive past and one of the people in a car THROWS A GODDAMN GLASS BOTTLE AT ME! It didn't break but it left a massive bruise one my arm.
Finally I arrive home exhausted and beaten. I went straight to bed. That concludes my the worst day I have had this year.

[Metosblat]

By the way your right, Xenogears Rulz!

[Charles]

Soccer is an amazing sport, don't let that day deter you from continuing to play. I played in High School and had so much fun. It is very enjoyable and you get to kick the crap out of a little ball that did absolutely nothing to you, which is fun in itself. That game is also a good way to vent frustration, but seeing as how I am a "gimp", as by brother so eloquently puts it, I cannot play. Have fun on the fields and kick someone's butt for me.

[Lady_Linda]

*can't help laughing at the bottle-thing* How extremely pissing-off! :0)

Hope you'll feel better soon, Charles!

(*adds her own randomality* Anyone want to read my first try on a political allegory? (One could say its fantasy, if you ignore the allegoric aspect)

[Metosblat]

Yeah, there's nothing better after walking 30km than to get a bottle to the body to really piss you off.

[Rob B]

This is good, we should have a topic where we can just vent and bitch and moan.

[Zsinj16]

Charles, I really hope your back gets better soon. My Grandpa has a terribly bad back and is a hard-working farmer and has to get things done, so he pushes himself past the limit sometimes and gets a really sore back because of it. My Grandma is really worried about him working too much and seriously harming his back, but nothing serious has happened too him yet, except his chronic back pains. He really tries to keep himself in shape, but I think he should take a load off and let me work in his place for a while. I really think that you should take it easy, Charles, and rest your back until it completely heals. I think you should really stay home from school if you feel that bad. I'll be praying for you to have a fast healing. http://www.sffworld.com/ubb/smile.gif